Data Community Lead

At The Millson Group, our Data Community Lead plays a central role in helping organizations build strong, scalable, and empowered analytics cultures.

This role bridges the gap between technical data infrastructure and business-facing insights, ensuring that data is not only accessible and reliable, but also actively adopted across teams. From designing modern reporting environments to training users in everyday analytics tools, the Data Community Lead helps companies turn data into a shared capability, not a siloed function.

Key Focus Areas

  • Analytics & Business Intelligence Enablement
    Lead the development and adoption of analytics tools such as Power BI, Excel, and enterprise reporting platforms to support decision-making across the organization.

  • Data Infrastructure to Visualization
    Support the full analytics pipeline—from SQL-based data modeling and transformation through dashboarding, KPI reporting, and executive-ready insights.

  • Training & Community Building
    Create internal data communities through hands-on training, documentation, and support that empowers teams to confidently use and develop analytics in their daily work.

  • Standardization & Best Practices
    Establish reporting standards, governance practices, and scalable analytics frameworks that ensure consistency, accuracy, and long-term growth.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
    Partner with business leaders, operations teams, and technical stakeholders to align analytics initiatives with organizational priorities.

Impact

The Data Community Lead helps clients move beyond isolated reporting toward a culture where data is understood, trusted, and actively used throughout the organization. By combining technical expertise with enablement and leadership, this role ensures analytics becomes a lasting capability—not just a project deliverable. 

Performance Objectives

  • Maintaining strong relationships with current clients through meetings on current work, ideation, touch bases, and providing recommendations.

  • Data analytics into client's data to understand opportunities for improvements and create actions for continued progress.

  • Searching for or creating data where it is not organized today. This will require knowledge of database architecture and methods of reading big data in a simple way.

  • Evaluating the functionality and success of previously implemented solutions.

  • Brainstorming with others at The Millson Group to create project plans and actions relating to current projects.

  • Travel to client's locations for meetings, time studies, and project reviews when needed (1-3x / quarter)

Necessary skills include

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Data Analytics

  • Proven portfolio of completed projects in data analytics

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

  • Experience in project management and team management

  • A willingness and proven background in self-learning of new skills or coding languages

  • SQL / Excel / Power BI

  • Data Modeling & Infrastructure

Preferred skills (or skills that you are willing to learn)

  • ERP Systems

  • Other languages (Python, R, Java)

  • Tableau and other Business Intelligence Tools

Benefits

  • Unlimited Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays

  • Flexible work hours

  • Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance

  • Semi-casual dress code

  • Remote work with occasional travel

  • Competitive pay